1.   In the bazaar, merchants fingered old-fashioned abacuses while hawking pirated cassettes from Hong Kong and counterfeit designer labels mass-produced in India.

2.   But pirated cassette tapes, movies and knockoffs of designer fashions can still be easily found and cheaply bought.

3.   From a macro industrial viewpoint, there are continuing issues of pirated cassettes and the distribution of royalties.

4.   Loudspeakers in shops selling cheap pirated cassettes blared songs eulogizing the richness of India and the sacrifices of freedom fighters.

5.   Producers say most of the films run to nearly empty theaters since people prefer to watch them at home on pirated video cassettes screened by cable.

6.   This is a good start, but other longstanding issues, particularly over pirated cassettes and royalties, still remain to be solved.

7.   However at shops renting pirated video cassettes, staff were undaunted at the prospect of going to prison or paying a fine.

8.   In the UAE, authorities said they had impounded thousands of pirated cassettes and shut scores of shops in a clampdown under new copyright laws.

9.   Chinese police have seized almost two million pirated cassettes, discs and computer programmes in thousands of raids over the past year, state media said Wednesday.